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Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus: 0
Author(s): Willem Floor (Author), Matthew Cassel (Editor), Layla Al-Zubaidi (Editor)
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date: 26 April 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781780765402
- ISBN-13: 1780765401
Book Description
From Cairo to Damascus and from Tunisia to Bahrain, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world. This is a remarkable collection of testimony, entirely composed by participants in, and witnesses to, the profound changes shaking their region. Situated between past, present and future – in a space where the personal and the political collide – these voices are part of an ongoing process, one that is at once hopeful and heartbreaking. Unique amongst material emanating from and about the convulsions in the Arab Middle East, these creative and original writers speak of history, determination and struggle, as well as of political and poetic engagement with questions of identity and activism. This book gives a moving and inspiring insight into the Arab revolutions and uprisings: why they are happening and what might come next.
Editorial Reviews
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‘a very intimate insight into the events that shape the lives of millions. The recollections of dictatorships are vivid, and the casual brutality they practised on their citizens is truly horrifying.’
(Irish Times)
(The Independent)
–(The National)
(Irish Times)
‘These accounts…[offer] examples of heroism and of hope for the future.’
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Writing Revolution provides a terrifying insight into the world of authoritarian regimes where freedom and democracy are alien concepts. Each of the eight accounts in this impressive anthology is accessible and illuminating.’(The Independent)
‘If ever there is a book that should be championed, it is
Writing Revolution … among the most moving, inspiring and revealing pieces of non-fiction writing we’ve come across in some time.’–(The National)
‘
Writing Revolution provides a terrifying insight into the world of authoritarian regimes where freedom and democracy are alien concepts. Each of the eight accounts in this impressive anthology is accessible and illuminating.’ –(The Independent)‘If ever there is a book that should be championed, it is
Writing Revolution … among the most moving, inspiring and revealing pieces of non-fiction writing we’ve come across in some time.’ –(The National)About the Author
Layla Al-Zubaidi is Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in South Africa, and was previously based in Beirut and Ramallah. She works to support political activists and has published on cultural resistance and freedom of expression.
Matthew Cassel is a journalist and photographer covering the Middle East for Al Jazeera English. Over the past decade he has worked in the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Bahrain and elsewhere.
